February 28, 2015, 1:18PM

Astronaut Terry Virts on Saturday (Feb. 28) posted to Instagram and Twitter a photograph of himself giving the Vulcan Salute as the International Space Station flew over Boston, Nimoy's hometown. Full story »

February 27, 2015, 5:42PM

Leonard Nimoy died on the morning of Feb. 27 as a result of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83. Nimoy is best known for iconic portrayal of Spock in the "Star Trek" series. Here are great moments from Nimoy's performances. Full story »

February 27, 2015, 1:57PM

February 27, 2015, 12:05PM

Actor Leonard Nimoy, known to millions of ?Star Trek? fans as Spock, is shown during filming in Peking, Oct. 30, 1981 of a $25 million film recreating the story of Marco Polo, the Italian merchant who discovered China for the West in the 13th century. The Italian production includes actors from the United States, China, Britain, Japan and other countries....

February 27, 2015, 12:05PM

February 27, 2015, 12:05PM

Actor Leonard Nimoy, formerly of television?s Star Trek, talks with fellow picketeer in Hollywood, Thursday, May 14, 1981. Actors demonstrated their support for the striking writers Guild of America in a joint march which was the first major show of support for the writers by the actors. (AP Photo/Fong)

February 27, 2015, 11:45AM

Actor Leonard Nimoy, left, chats with Gene Wilder at the screening of the movie ?Never Forget? Tuesday, March 20, 1991, New York. Nimoy portrays concentration camp survivor Mel Mermelstein who was challenged in 1980 by a revisionist group to prove that Jews were gased in camps. (AP Photo/David Cantor)

February 27, 2015, 11:45AM

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, DEC.1-3--Leonard Nimoy poses during an interview in New York city on Oct. 17, 1995. In his autobiography "I Am Spock," Nimoy comes to grips with the character that has helped shape the way Americans view him. It is a rejoinder to a little-known volume he wrote 20 years ago entitled "I Am Not Spock." (AP Photo,...

February 27, 2015, 11:45AM

Leonard Nimoy, alias Mr. Spock in "Star Trek " series and film shown May 30, 1982 in Los Angeles, is pleased with the way Paramount handled his death in the late "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." "When it was first suggested to me would die, I was hesitant, " says Nimoy. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

February 27, 2015, 11:45AM

William Shatner, left, and Leonard Nimoy, known to thousands of "Star Trek" fans as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, are teamed up once again when they appear on ABC's "T.J. Hooker." In the episode, scheduled to air February 5, Nimoy plays a police lieutenant and former police partner of Shatner, who portrays T.J. Hooker on Jan. 28, 1983. (AP Photo/Lennox...

February 27, 2015, 11:45AM

Actor Leonard Nimoy gives a "live long and prosper" sign after being awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during Boston University's commencement on the school campus in Boston, Sunday, May 20, 2012. The gesture was made popular by Nimoy while performing in the role of Spock during the television broadcast of the science fiction series Star Trek. (AP...

February 27, 2015, 11:45AM

William Shatner, as Capt. Jams Kirk (right) and his first officer Leonard Nimoy, as Mr. Spock, will once again command the star ship U.S.S. Enterprise in a major movie film it was announced on Tuesday, March 28, 1978 in Los Angels at a Paramount Studio press conference. Most of the original crew will return in the movie version of ?Star...